2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles
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Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering,
mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles
give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain
on the Russia-China border.
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1. A type of coax cable (semi-rigid, e.g.) 4. Another name for band reject 8. Chemical symbol for
manganese 10. Common average used for sinewaves (abbr.) 11. Noise source and measurement company in
Parsippany, NJ 13. Unit of length (abbr.) 16. ___ Industries, RF switch & attenuator manufacturer
located in Indianapolis, IN 18. Greek letter
20. Uses a squeezing tool for attaching a wire lug 22. Chemical symbol for antimony
24. Image file format name extension, (pl.) 25. Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.)
27. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE 29. Peak envelope power (abbr.) 31. PC follower
33. _______ Electronics, RF filter & components manufacturer in Garfield, NJ 37. Numerical basis for
decibels (abbr.) 39. Chemical symbol for beryllium 40. Start frequency (abbr.) 41. Securing device
43. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.) 45. Open-______ or closed-______ system 47. Joined a male and a female
connector 48. Ratio of circumference to diameter
49. Unit of apparent power (abbr.) 51. Karl Friedrich _____, after whom the unit of magnetic field
strength is named 53. This calculus operation yields voltage across a capacitor
54. Chemical symbol for erbium 55. _____ factor, the peak-to-average waveform value
56. Ham abbreviation for "distant station" 58. __ Dude, premier design consultant in Rochester, NY (also
part of this website's name) 60. Ham's code for "Station is leaving the net." 62. _______ Dynamics,
precision RF measurement equipment and components vendor in Middleburg Heights, OH 66. Method of
connecting redundant power supplies 67. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices 69. Software
engineering tool (abbr.) 71. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.) 73. Power supply vendor in Concord, CA
75. Type of flip-flop 77. ______ Monolithics, MIC/MMIC designers in Frederick, MD
78. Frequency Division Duplex 79. End of soldering iron 81. Type of current flow (abbr.)
83. Circumference/pi 86. Current-voltage phase mnemonic 88. Chemical symbol for thulium
89. ________ + Test Equipment. TE sales & rental service in Webster, MA 90. Type of amplifier topology
that uses hybrid couplers
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1. Nickname for the Fermi National Accelerator laboratory
2. Electrical overstress (abbr.) 3. Opens a fuse 4. Low- to mid- frequency RF connector
5. Stock symbol for National Semiconductor 6. Below ELF 7. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania
region (abbr.) 8. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc. 9. Star _________, high power ferrite isolator &
circulator company in San Jose, CA 11. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.) 12. Switch position
14. Shorthand for troposphere 15. Z-___m, shorthand for Z-Communications, San Diego, CA 16. JavaScript
(abbr.) 17. MS's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages (abbr.) 19. Chemical
symbol for helium
21. Unit of time (abbr.) 23. 1's and 0's 24. Test Equipment Connection, new & used TE in Lake Mary, FL
(abbr.) 26. Chemical symbol for radon 28. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors 30.
_______-Photonics, RF components & design services company in Palm City, FL 32. Vector _______, antenna
designer & manufacturer in Melbourne, Australia 33. The most distant point of an orbit from the earth
34. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.) 35. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor 36. Line
extending out from center 38. Key feature in a high level overvoltage protection device
42. Positive voltage lead color 44. A fixed line used in formulating the definition of a curve or surface
46. Last stage in transmitter (abbr., pl.) 47. 1E6 nanoseconds
50. Automatic repeat request used in AMTOR (abbr.) 52. Coordinated Universal Time (abbr.)
56. One who DXs 57. Greek letter 59. First stages of a receiver 61. _____ Microwave East (part of
L3-Com), RF component manufacturer located in Hauppauge, NY 63. Ovenized crystal oscillator (abbr.)
64. A common battery cell size 65. Chemical symbol for argon 68. Digital Communications Hub (abbr.)
70. Chemical symbol for chlorine 71. Compact Fluorescent Light 72. Chemical symbol for neodymium
74. Family of ICs with a certain component density level (abbr.) 76. Alloy of iron and low percentages of
carbon, manganese, chromium, etc. 77. Min-to-max voltage of a waveform (abbr.) 80. Infrared (abbr.)
82. Common gateway interface (abbr.) 83. Deutsche Industrie Normenausschuss
84. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.) 85. Unit of length (abbr.) 86. International Reply Coupon (abbr.)
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